Mumbai, Mar 8: Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar has asked the Cricket Board to adopt the Inter-Universities cricket tournament for the Rohinton Baria Trophy to bring back the glory days of the tournament when a number of future Test cricketers graduated from this event.

"I take this opportunity to appeal to the Indian Cricket Board to adopt Inter-Universities Cricket which was the platform for Test cricketers like Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar and yours truly besides Milind Rege (former Mumbai Ranji Trophy captain). I congratulate Mumbai University for regaining the Rohinton Baria Trophy after two years," said the former India skipper at a felicitation function at the Wankhede Stadium on Friday.

Mumbai Cricket Association, of which Vengsarkar is a Vice President, had organised the function to honour the MCA's Under-22 and Under-17 teams which have won the Col C K Nayudu and Vijay Merchant trophy tournaments conducted by the BCCI apart from the Mumbai University team which the MCA supports financially.

MCA also handed out cheques of Rs 50,000 each to 47 players who were part of the victorious under 22 and under 17 campaign, disbursing a total of Rs 23.5 lakh in the process, and a citation to them as well as the Inter-University champions.

"I had played for Mumbai and also captained the inter- universities team against the visiting England team (led by Tony Greig in 1976)," recalled Vengsarkar about the regular fixture which used to be adopted by the BCCI in yesteryears, by scheduling a match between the tourists and the combined varsities side.